Why I Teach
    I teach because I like the pace of the academic calendar. June, July, and August offer an opportunity for reflection, research and writing.
    I teach because teaching is a profession built on change. When the material is the same, I change--and, more important, my studen

    Live and Die
      The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings. To a large extent, the physical form and the habits of the earth's vegetation and its animal life have been molded by the environment. Considering the whole span of eart

World Governments Should Conduct Serious Campaigns against Smoking
        If you smoke and you still don't believe that there's a definite link between smoking and bronchial troubles, heart disease and lung cancer, then you are certainly deceiving yourself. No one wi

The World' s Population
      The first fifty years of the next millennium will be critical for the world's population.  By  2050  population growth should have leveled off, but by then we'll have 10 billion people--two-thirds as many again as we have today.The rate of population growth is somet

Advantages of Ads
  Advertisers  tend  to think big and perhaps this is why they' re always coming in for  criticism.  Their  critics seem   to   resent   them   because they have a flair for self-promotion and because they have so much money to throw around. "It'

学习：一生的事业
As food is to the body, so is learning to the mind. Our bodies grow and muscles develop with the intake of adequate nutritious food. Likewise, we should keep learning day by day to maintain our keen mental power and expand our intellectual capacity. Constant learning supplies us with inexhaustible fuel for driving us to

Good Writing, Bad Writing ?
          Despite the modern desire to be easy and casual, Americans from time to time give thought to the language they use, to grammar, vocabulary,and official languages. And, as on other issues, they divide into two parties. Th

  Things about Me
        I  am Andrea.  Perhaps the word "average" can best describe me. I am of average height, average weight and of average complexion. I have a thin face, double-lid eyes and a pointed nose.  My hair is black, short and straight.  I have never worn my hai

  Qualities Employer Seek
    Knowing what an employer is looking for in a potential employee can help an applicant to prepare for an interview.An interviewer for a major corporation was asked these questions: What specific skills are you looking for in applicants?And how do you identify these skills? He responded:

Examinations Exert a Negative Influence on Education
    We might marvel at the progress made in every field of study,but the methods of testing a person's knowledge and ability remain as primitive as ever they were. It really is extraordinary that after all these years, educationis

Parents Are too Permissive with Their Children Nowadays
        The child' s happiness is al I-important,  the psychologists say, but what about the parents' happiness? Parents suffer constantly from fear and guilt while their children gaily romp about pulling the plac

      College Pressure
      I  see two kinds of pressure working on college students today: economic pressure, parental pressure. It is easy to look around for rebels-- to blame the colleges for charging too much money, the parents for pushing their children too far. But there ar

The theory of plate tectonics describes the motions of the lithosphere, the comparatively rigid outer layer of the Earth that includes all the crust and part of the underlying mantle. The lithosphere(n.[地]岩石圈)is divided into a few dozen plates of various sizes and shapes, in genera

Icebergs are among nature's most spectacular creations, and yet most people have never seen one. A vague air of mystery envelops them. They come into being ----- somewhere ------in faraway, frigid waters, amid thunderous noise and splashing turbulence, which in most cases no one he

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